In October 1963, a massive landslide crashed into the reservoir behind Italy’s Vajont Dam, triggering a catastrophic mega-tsunami. A towering wave surged over the dam and tore through the narrow ...

The Vajont Dam disaster was one of the deadliest engineering failures in modern history. Engineers were warned repeatedly that the mountain above the reservoir was unstable, yet construction continued ...

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...